Well...That Sucked.

Nerd-artist23 here, writing this from my smartphone with a little help from Google voice typing.

My trip to the computer repair shop did not go well. The tech support guy there said he had to do something he called a scan of my drive or my laptop itself, to see what the problem was. I had to leave it there for a few days till he was done, he told me that would take a long while.

That was on Friday January the 15th, he was done with it on the night of Sunday the 17th. He said the data was unrecoverable; the problem appears to be with the head of the hard drive. Now, I’ve used that laptop for four years, I only dropped it twice (about four years ago) and I spilled tea on it twice too (first time was four years ago, second was three years ago), I know that’s not the case here, if dropping it or spilling tea damaged it, it would’ve broken down years ago. I don’t have a problem with overheating, I would’ve known if I did (I’ve dealt with overheating, I would’ve recognised the symptoms and I would’ve bought a cooling pad). I doubt it’s a virus, I wasn’t visiting any dodgy sites, wasn’t putting any disks or USBs into it, wasn’t downloading anything, except for some songs I bought on iTunes, but I’m pretty damn sure iTunes didn’t do anything. I even have the latest Norton anti-virus, and I know protection isn’t a hundred percent effective, but I couldn’t have gotten a virus if I wasn’t doing anything that could infect my computer. But the guy just said maybe my laptop was just getting too old.

So on Monday the 18th,I decided to go to another repair shop and see if the guy there could fix it. They had to do another…scan, and they told me if they could fix it the highest possible cost would be about 1k (aka $1000) in real life money. They told me they'd have the results ready by Wednesday the 20th, but when they didn't call, I called them, turns out they lied.

See...they didn't do repairs in store, they had to deliver their items for repair to another place that's about an hour away from my city to do them, they told me it got in today and they should have the results ready on Friday the 22nd or Saturday, maybe even Sunday. I'm pretty mad about being lied to, but it wasn't like I could say anything to the guy on the phone (it's not gonna get anything done faster if I put up a hostile attitude, plus if I pissed him off, he might be less inclined to help me if I needed anything from him later).

Now my wait begins...again. Nerd-artist23, out.